singular event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsingularandevent
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singular
adjective
uk/ˈsɪŋ.ɡjə.lər/us/ˈsɪŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/
language
of or relating to the form of a word used when talking or writing about ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofsingularandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsingular event
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Put differently: he designates as an epistemic factor the non-deducible sudden insight ("sudden idea"), which manifests itself as asingularevent("flash").
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Like most inventions, they are not the result of a lucky moment, asingularevent, a founding impulse, or an institutional innovation.
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Like the latter, it is asingulareventthat occurred in one individual.
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The pilot project was planned as asingularevent, aiming at offering a basal mammography to all those women who never had a mammography before (defined as risk group).
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The determinant contradictions (the reasons for popular revolt) are not addressed and so their great mass is displaced onto thesingularevent.
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Thissingulareventraised the morale of not only the troops in the fort but the whole nation.
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The pain and harm being avoided by this type of denial is more of the effort needed to change the focus from asingulareventto looking at preceding events.
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His definition of sin wasn't based on asingularevent, but rather as a period of several years of an individual striving towards earthly, bodily satisfaction.
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Furthermore, the trial remained asingularevent.
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They cannot make singular events cause a change of behaviour in the system by altering, even without annulling, its functioning.
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The arrival of the ship had a profound effect on the settlersthesingulareventin the minds of local residents that transformed the outpost into a town.
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Because it depends so much on the perception of major and often singular events, reputational autonomy can change more quickly than either legal or task-based autonomy.
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It also forces a basic reconsideration of the meaning of chance, probability, coincidence and the singular events in our lives.
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